Robert Tibshirani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Robert Tibshirani

Canadian statistician

Date of Birth: 10-Jul-1956

Place of Birth: Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

Profession: statistician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Robert Tibshirani (born July 10, 1956) is a Professor in the Departments of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University.
He was a Professor at the University of Toronto from 1985 to 1998.
In his work, he develops statistical tools for the analysis of complex datasets, most recently in genomics and proteomics. His most well-known contributions are the Lasso method, which proposed the use of L1 penalization in regression and related problems, and Significance Analysis of Microarrays.